News: Election 2012

Alfre Woodard campaigns for Obama in Longmont

LONGMONT — Film, stage and television actress Alfre Woodard was scheduled to deliver a Saturday afternoon pep talk to volunteers preparing to canvass voters on President Barack Obama's behalf.

Woodard was expected to help kick off that canvass effort at the Democratic president's Longmont campaign field office, 1811 Hover St., Suite G.

Woodard has appeared in such movies as Cross Creek, Passion Fish, Star Trek: First Contact, Primal Fear, Miss Evers' Boys and Passion Fish, as well as such television series as Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, L.A. Law, the Practice, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy and True Blood.